January 2012
2 posts
“In its efforts to be “safe rather than sorry,” precaution becomes myopic. It...”
– Kevin Kelly - What Technology Wants
“Ubiquitous systems lend themselves easily to—indeed, redefine—surveillance....”
– Adam Greenfield - All watched over by machines of loving grace
December 2011
2 posts
“Thomas Maldonado … saw the design process as a system embodying both...”
– Wikipedia: Ulm School of Design
“Based on the discrepancies between Bill’s approach and that of other...”
– Wikipedia: Ulm School of Design
November 2011
4 posts
“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into...”
– P.D. Smith - Ghetto at the Center of the World
“I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just...”
– Click Nothing - The Dominant Cultural Form of the 21st Century
“Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness....”
– Bret Victor - A Brief Rant on The Future of Interaction Design
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“The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of...”
– Bill Moyers - How Wall Street Occupied America
October 2011
6 posts
“In mid-April 2011, the media reported that Chinese government has prohibited...”
– Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street
“Engineers are far more important than managers at Apple — and designers are at...”
– Cult of Mac: John Sculley on Steve Jobs
“Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything. Which is...”
– http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/11474433084/welcome-to-the-occupations
The Situationist International Text Library/On the... →
We must add in all fairness that there do exist students of a tolerable intellectual level, who without difficulty dominate the controls designed to check the mediocre capacity demanded from the others. They do so for the simple reason that they have understood the system, and so despise it and know themselves to be its enemies. They are in the system for what they can get out of...
The Situationist International Text Library/On the... →
Far from contesting the historical process which subordinates one of the last relatively autonomous social groups to the demands of the market, the progressives complain of delays and inefficiency in its completion. They are the standard-bearers of the cybernetic university of the future ( which has already reared its ugly head in some unlikely quarters). And they are the enemy: the fight against...
The Situationist International Text Library/On the... →
The fetishism of facts masks the essential category, and the details consign the totality to oblivion.
September 2011
2 posts
“I am not naive and I am not a fool. I realize that gamification is the easy...”
– Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit
“I’m not saying that the games that were at Games 4 Change are bad games, nor am...”
– simon wiscombe’s blog» Blog Archive » Serious Games: A Conflict in Contextual Creation
July 2011
1 post
“The shortcoming with them, of course, is that, among many other things, they...”
– Fifteen suppositions from John Maus on art, music, blowing up cities on film and Ariel Pink - latimes.com
June 2011
1 post
“Between the idea of elaborating an urbanism and the thesis that all urbanism is...”
– Lefebvre on the Situationists: An Interview
April 2011
1 post
“The Design Document provided a brief summary of every beat before providing a...”
– A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of Cisco’s ARG The Hunt | Magazine | Wired.com
March 2011
2 posts
“Bouch”
– usc interactive media division | Alphabetical Directory
“Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did...”
– Feynman’s Nobel Ambition
January 2011
5 posts
“This might sound good if you are a chill young social media CEO giving a...”
– How FourSquare Intends to be vs. How FourSquare Really is « Thought Catalog
“When critics coo over museums as aesthetic temples, I get nervous. These same...”
– Museum 2.0
“Most ‘social games’—and I’m talking primarily about Facebook games here—pretend...”
– Social games aren’t | Hypergame
“Maybe I am taking conspiracy theories too seriously, but I am worried to detect,...”
– Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour
“In early 1997, Sokal came to the University of Illinois, and quite graciously...”
– Michael Bérubé for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
December 2010
12 posts
“Situated software isn’t a technological strategy so much as an attitude...”
– Shirky: Situated Software
“However, addressing these scarcities can give Web School design a kind of...”
– Shirky: Situated Software
“A number of differentiating traits are thus permitted to emerge which are not...”
– Henri Lefebvre
“Euclidean space [he continues] is defined by its “isotopy” (or...”
– Henri Lefebvre
“An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the raison d’etre...”
– Henri Lefebvre
“Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without...”
– Henri Lefebvre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what...”
– New Left Review - David Harvey: The Right to the City
“Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or...”
– Spinuzzi: Reading :: A Thousand Plateaus (second attempt)
“Where then, lies the duty of surrationalism? It is to take over those formulas,...”
– Ralph Dumain: “The Autodidact Project”: Quotes: GASTON BACHELARD on Surrationalism
“Like Michel Foucault after him (and anticipating Thomas Kuhn’s notion of the...”
– HDM_6_Books_Ockman
“In the Theatre of the Oppressed, though, theatre becomes a tool of empowerment. ...”
– The Theatre of the Oppressed: A Biography of Augusto Boal
“Milord runs his Mad Avenue Gallery, in which he displays wares. He is protected...”
– U B U W E B :: Dick Higgins on Intermedia
November 2010
13 posts
“For Fable III explicitly to take up questions about entitlement spending,...”
– Gamasutra - News - Analysis: The Role Of Narrative In Fable III
“To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of...”
– falling indelibly into the past » Planned Obsolescence
“Produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are...”
– Produsage: A Working Definition | Produsage.org
“As Eric von Hippel notes in Democratizing Innovation, the object of such...”
– Produsage: A Working Definition | Produsage.org
“We have often heard that Internet puts power in the hands of the consumer, but...”
– Shirky: RIP The Consumer, 1900-1999
“The last trait of heterotopias is that they have a function in relation to all...”
– Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
“And perhaps our life is still governed by a certain number of oppositions that...”
– Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
“Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites.”
– Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
“Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think,...”
– Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias
“We, as a society, can’t kill this new form of creativity. We can only...”
– Full text of “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”
“It is no surprise, then, that these other forms of “creating” are becoming an...”
– Full text of “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”
“Yet though this remix is not new, for most of our history it was silenced. Not...”
– Full text of “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”